Why Exactly Is President Obama ACTING Like GEORGE McFLY?

[Segami]

:shrug:

:popcorn:



"......He's following rules that no longer exist, pandering to voter attitudes that will have zero consequence in terms of both his approval numbers and his reelection chances. He's completely off the rails -- well beyond any notion of post-partisanship. In fact, if his intention has been to "change the way Washington does business," he's currently and epically failing because I simply can't believe that the new and improved way is this way.



- Within roughly 24 hours, President Obama preemptively capitulated to the Republicans and proposed an unabridged GOP idea -- freezing federal worker salaries, then, almost as if on cue, the Senate Republicans put their unflinching childish obstructionism in writing and pledged to block everything unless the president extends the deficit-ballooning Bush tax rates. And in that mix, the Republicans blocked extensions of unemployment benefits. Twice.



- The upshot? The president looks extraordinarily weak. Weaker than at any other time in his presidency. It probably didn't help that he was literally beaten and bloodied when he announced the pay freeze, due to his weekend basketball fracas.


That character doesn't look cooperative at all. He looks like a very smart and very serious... wimp.


- He looks like he's unable to handle negotiations. He looks like George McFly. He looks like he's capitulating to a fraternity of hooples who are wrong about everything; who deny basic economics; who deny basic math; who exist for no other reason than to, as DougJ at Balloon Juice described, win elections "by fighting hard over imaginary issues."


- In other words, the Republicans have constructed a political and media machine that allows them to function with impunity. All of cable news is packed wall-to-wall with Republicans who robotically repeat the same false, fact-free ideas over and over -- and they're given complete latitude because of the press's self-flagellation over the "liberal media" myth. They've managed to guilt the press into supporting and repeating unvarnished bullshit like "tax cuts stimulate the economy and unemployment benefits don't" and "allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will hurt jobs" and "the stimulus didn't work" and "the Democrats are spending us into oblivion." None of that is true.


The Bush tax rates for the wealthy don't stimulate the economy, but unemployment benefits do. The Bush tax cuts haven't created any jobs in ten years, and middle class wages have stagnated. The stimulus worked (not well enough, but it worked). And the Democrats slashed the budget deficit by record numbers.



cont'

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Exactly-Is-President-O-by-Bob-Cesca-101204-419.html>

[Politics_Guy25]

1. This is criticism that I can agree with-n/t

[ZombieHorde]

2. "Why Exactly Is President Obama ACTING Like GEORGE McFLY?"

For the righteous punch at the end of the movie! He also gets a lover! Who doesn't like new lovers?

[Bucky]

3. Is that what you call

being fucked over by John Boehner?

[ZombieHorde]

4. The lover McFly found is more to my taste. nt

[Name removed]

5. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.